Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944.
[2] In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne.
[3] He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister.
When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success.
[4] After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands.